Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c24db0dacdd3cd79…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

165.1 KB
MD5: 6eb95eef4e6266dd7cc37637ba0829f3 SHA-1: 439411520ff4f21562023a8420c729d1f655e302 SHA-256: c24db0dacdd3cd797acd3dd311c1d23bf27eca95c60b21b62ce672976fde4b4e
129 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR). The ".objupdate" heuristic indicates that the object is designed to be activated automatically, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of an "objdata" section further supports the embedding of executable content. While no specific family is identified, the attack pattern is consistent with exploit-laced documents.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001d1d.bin
ae599ec340864d2e27b98e42229c6bbbda510b2d30bd11dff46b6ace7a120b83
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1D1D 64577 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.91, consistent with packed or encrypted content.